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This is a frame capture from HD video using the Canon EOS Rebel T6 camera, with the Canon 18-55mm zoom lens.
This is early on in Part Three of the 2018 Doo Dah Parade video. I had a great opportunity to grab Uncle Fester doing his act of pouring water into a pitcher with dry ice in it and getting the effect backlit. This photographer obviously wanted to take advantage of it as well, perhaps figuring he could get the two belly dancers later on.
You can see this in my video of the parade by clicking on the link below to my YouTube channel:
Big Bus, Double decker, sightseeing, with Addams Family advertisement, in Manhattan, New York, USA. December, 2021. Copyright Tom Turner
This is also a frame capture from HD video using the Canon EOS Rebel T6 camera, with the Canon 18-55mm zoom lens.
Uncle Fester, whom I think has been with the Doo Dah Parade and Queen Tryouts from the beginning, showed up again with his chemistry kit and light bulbs.
You can see this shot early on in the video, part one, by clicking on the link below to my YouTube channel:
Thing didn't show up this year. Perhaps it got lost, the battery died, or it ran away on its nimble fingers, I don't really know. But as this Fester is fascinated with anything with lights I suppose it is a decent substitute.
This is also a frame capture from HD video, using the Canon EOS Rebel T6, with the 18-55mm lens.
Selfie
Bronica SQ-A camera
Zenzanon PS 150mm f/4 lens
S-18 extension tube
Ilford HP5 Plus medium format film
Home developed in R09
Uncle Fester brought back his more traditional props for this year's parade. I managed to grab this while someone else was taking his photo as well.
This image, however, is a frame capture from HD video using the Canon EOS Rebel T6 camera, with the Canon 18-55mm zoom lens. I am using the 18mm end.
Happy Hallowe'en, everyone!
This has got to be my favourite all time photo of Hallowe'en when I was a kid.
My cousins as Gomez, Morticia, and Pugsley, and my brother and I as Uncle Fester and Wednesday.
Sadly this picture doesn't show my headless doll. :(
Gomez Addams, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Lurch, Thing, Cousin Itt and the others would not look out of place in this fine Victorian Gothic villa in Sefton Park, Liverpool, judging by its similarity to their own mansion house in the popular 1960s TV series (although the “Solna” is probably not sufficiently dilapidated for the Addams’ taste).
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Theme Of The Week - Electrified
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas A. Edison, on the invention of the light bulb
This light bulb was in my parents' house when we moved in and probably installed in the late 60's. It was removed in the mid-80's because my mom thought that the fixture was ugly. It then rattled around in a box until earlier today when I installed the fixture in my house.
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farewell, incandescent
I will miss you
I will miss burning my fingers
trying to change you
I will miss the smell of burning dust
and, hot air
I will miss warming my eyeliner
for easier application
In some way, I think this shot was inspired in part by Andrew Kufahl (www.flickr.com/arkufahl), insofar as I see him put a lot of intentional thought behind the lighting in his shots. I would have to say my normal MO is to set up, experiment, play and see what comes out. This time, I put enough forethought into this that the whole experience felt different. So I'm including this setup shot. I haven't got much lighting equipment yet, so I have to be uber-creative on complex lighting setups, not that a 2 light setup ever really qualifies as "complex".
SB-600 zoomed to 85mm and cranked as low as it would go, shot through an umbrella that I bought at Goodwill for $4 and broke the handle off (right). Set it low and pointing slightly up so the glow filling my face would look like it was coming from the light bulb.
SB-600 at 85mm zoom TTL and placed inside a apricot carton (much like the oatmeal box snoot) pointing straight up from bottom.
flagged light from bottom strobe to keep off my face/chin. The proper tool probably would have been a grid/honeycomb, but I don't have one, so I winged it.
Glow from lightbulb is actually just the light bulb doing what it does. This would not work as well with an incandescent because there is phosphor in the CFL which makes it glow when you shine light on it. That's how they work. Don't get me started - I talk about light bulbs too much of my workday already... if you really care to hear about it, go here: home.howstuffworks.com/question236.htm
What? You thought Jar-Jar helping Chancellor Palpatine get emergency powers was just a coincidence? Was Jar-Jar in on the conspiracy or just a dolt - you decide.
Best Unmasking In A Movie Since Lon Chaney's "Phantom Of The Opera" goes to the original Robocop. When Murphy literally unscrews his helmet off, with his face in front and machinery in the back, I thought "THAT'S what Anakin Skywalker's unveiling SHOULD have been!"
Are they trying to say that a headless boy is the perfect boyfriend or that Uncle Fester is the perfect boyfriend?? He looks suspiciously like me, minus my head.
Goin' Out Of My Head ~ The Letterman/Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You Medley
What's Going On In The Head Of That Woman ~ Yonder Mountain String Band
BLUEGRASS Music!
This was the second idea I had to do a project with the bunkers and the Addams family that I described with a drawing where the Bunkers' car breaks down outside the Addams family.
The rest of it is how the Bunkers react to the Addams family. Archie is prejudice edith is bewildered Gloria is scared and Meathead wants to make friends with them.
There are a lot of interesting situations incidents including Vincent price as a wannabe vampire, the Addams family drinking tiger's milk (that actually came from a tiger).
Went to see The Addams Family on Broadway.
Brooke Shields was Morticia. I think it was her 6th performance. She was good.
I know you aren't supposed to take pictures, but I had to get a shot of Cousin It.
This was Cousin Its only appearance.
Been asked by a photography magazine to let them publish 4 photos i have taken ,its the 2nd time the last one was from Australia the full rainbow from a sunrise trek at the beach .which is fine as its some advertising and hopefully people will pick up some tips , they wanted a self portrait of me aaaaaaaaaaargh i dislike my own photo - ive taken 100's of images of me delete , delete , delete , till thi smoody one popped on the LCD !!
A digitally manipulated photo of famous occultist Aleister Crowley building a charming village of gingerbread. No clue as to the date (I'm assuming around X-Mas 2023) nor to the wag that created the image.
I hope this pic uploads properly; it's been giving me some trouble saving it on my PC...
The original: lucidpast.blog/
Uncle Fester, or someone impersonating him, greets Lakers victory paradegoers. He seems to have strayed from Hollywood -- and in downtown L.A., he wasn't charging $5 to $20 to take his picture.
Note the smoking cup on his head and the light bulbs glowing in his mouth -- as well as a light fixture poking out from his head!
And for no reason at all, some Metro buses were parked along the Parade route.
In some way, I think this shot was inspired in part by Andrew Kufahl (http://www.flickr.com/arkufahl), insofar as I see him put a lot of intentional thought behind the lighting in his shots. I would have to say my normal MO is to set up, experiment, play and see what comes out. This time, I put enough forethought into this that the whole experience felt different. So I'm including this setup shot. I haven't got much lighting equipment yet, so I have to be uber-creative on complex lighting setups, not that a 2 light setup ever really qualifies as "complex".
SB-600 zoomed to 85mm and cranked as low as it would go, shot through an umbrella that I bought at Goodwill for $4 and broke the handle off (right). Set it low and pointing slightly up so the glow filling my face would look like it was coming from the light bulb.
SB-600 at 85mm zoom TTL and placed inside a apricot carton (much like the oatmeal box snoot) pointing straight up from bottom.
flagged light from bottom strobe to keep off my face/chin. The proper tool probably would have been a grid/honeycomb, but I don't have one, so I winged it.
Glow from lightbulb is actually just the light bulb doing what it does. This would not work as well with an incandescent because there is phosphor in the CFL which makes it glow when you shine light on it. That's how they work. Don't get me started - I talk about light bulbs too much of my workday already... if you really care to hear about it, go here: home.howstuffworks.com/question236.htm
Elwood (Danny Gill) gets down, often better than Dan Ackroyd, to Aretha Franklin's "Respect," as Jake (John Gonzales) struts back over to the Bluesmobile. Meanwhile, Uncle Fester passively watches as his homemade bubble machine bubbles over. You can watch Elwood do his dance in Part Two of the 2013 Doo Dah Parade on YouTube:
Big Bus, Double decker, sightseeing, with Addams Family advertisement, in Manhattan, New York, USA. December, 2021. Copyright Tom Turner
Here are some of my images from this April's Steel City Con in Monroeville, PA.
I got to meet the cast of Vacation, Christopher Lloyd, the original Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees (from Freddy vs Jason), Nancy from the original Nightmare on Elm Street, plus a lot of cool people throughout the day. As you can see, Mikey & Lexi had a good time there as well!
FYI, as you will see, I had the cast of Vacation (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, and Miriam Flynn) sign my full size Vacation movie poster, and the other people signed custom graphics that I made for them to autograph. I love making these, the actors seem to like them and it gives me something unique to collect.